Formative Assessment via Group Video Assignment for Business School Students in Tertiary Education System

Abstract

Technology is part of our daily life. With the introduction of tablets and smartphones around the world since 2008, the acceptance level is much higher than we thought. Today, it is slowly replacing the use of personal computer with more powerful hardware and richer apps features being introduced for tablets and smartphones everyday. The effects have somehow changing the way of teaching and learning in tertiary education system as well. The use of learning management system is a must for every college/university, and some of the formative and summative assessments are driven by technology such as group video assignment. The objectives of the paper are to identify the factors to be considered before setting the group video assignment, to identify the challenges of the students, and to propose the solutions for creating the group video assignment. The study is based on the focus group for both lecturers and students from business school in tertiary education system in Malaysia. The main contributions of the paper are to obtain the important factors and challenges from both lecturers and students and subsequently introducing the propose solutions for beginners and experts as a reference point for creating the group video assignment. The findings show that the creating of group video assignment is fun and challenging for the students as they need to construct the idea and solution into a 10-min video while the lecturers able to enrich the knowledge of discipline areas and creative problem-solving and scientific skills of the students more holistically.